President Joe Biden met on Monday with his national security team in anticipation of a retaliatory attack by Tehran over what it alleges was Israel’s killing of a Hamas leader on its soil.
The high-level meeting occurred as the United States aims to cool tensions in the troubled region, heightened again by the killing of top Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh on July 31 during an airstrike targeting his housing in the Iranian capital after he attended the inauguration of Iran’s new president.
